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    Theon Cross/PokusCandace of Meroe/Pokus OneSoul Jazz Records
    KaleidoscopeNew Spirts Known and UnknownSoul Jazz Records
    Asher GamedzeDialectic SoulOn The Corner Records
    Tubby HayesThe Fontana Jazz Albums (1961-1969)Fontana ‎/ Decca
    Alpha Steppa & Pupa JimDear FriendSteppas Records
    O.B.F. & NazambaHot BeerDubquake Records
    The GyratorsReal Rock3 Bun
    Eddie HarrisThe In Sound (1965)Pure Pleasure
    SimfOnyxMagenta Skyline / The UnresolvedDelights
    ReloadA Collection Of Short Stories (Limited Coloured Vinyl Edition)Music On Vinyl
    MillsartEvery Dog Has Its Day Vol. 6Axis
    Beatriz FerreyraHuellas EntreveradasPersistence Of Sound
    Clams CasinoMoon Trip RadioClammyClams Productions
    StallionPoor Me Natty DreadVirgo Stomach
    Johnny ClarkeStrickly Reggae MusicPatate Records
    Horace MartinWatermelon ManMister Tipsy
    IkonikaBodiesDon't Be Afraid
    France JobinDeath Is Perfection, Everything Else Is RelativeEditions Mego
    Hania RaniHomeGondwana Records
    Don CosmicIguana Dance / Solid Rock-A-ByeRudimentario Records
    Joyce CoolingIt's You / DoriDiplomats Of Soul
    Joel Ramirez Jr & FantasyI’ll Call You Every Morning / I Can’t Let Her GoRain&Shine
    Martin Freeman and Eddie Piller present: Jazz On The Corner TwoVarious ArtistsAcid Jazz
    Thiago NassifMenteGearbox Records
    New Tangents In Kampala, London and Nairobi, Vol. 1 (feat. K15, Lynda Dawn & Joe Armon-Jones)Various ArtistsExtra Soul Perception
    Rheji Burrell presents NY House'N AuthorityOut of Body ExperienceRunning Back
    Rick HolmesRemember To RememberGold Mink Records
    VariousRock Steady Beat (Treasure Isle's Greatest Hits)Jet Set Records
    Tone B. NimbleSoul Is My Salvation Chapter 5Rain&Shine
    FunctionSubject F (Transcendence)Eaux
    MandisaSummer LoveDiscs Of Fun And Love
    Brenda JonesSuper Stroke / Big MistakeExpansion
    Greg FoatSymphonie PacifiqueStrut
    Rheji Burrell presents The Utopia ProjectThe ‘V’ EPRunning Back
    Angel Bat DawidTransition EastInternational Anthem Recording Company
    EnlightmentAgape LoveNature Sounds
    Ikebe ShakedownAsa-Sa / PepperUbiquity
    MndsgnBedMndsgn Limited
    Oneness Of JujuChapter Two: NiaNow-Again Records
    Philip Glass and Robert WilsonEinstein On The BeachMusic On Vinyl
    Magic In ThreesIIIKingUnderground Records
    The HeliocentricsInfinity Of NowMadlib Invazion
    Shawn LeeKiss The SkyUbiquity
    Nia AndrewsNo Place Is SafeWorld Galaxy
    Stretch And Bobbito & The M19s BandNo RequestsUprising Music
    D.I.T.C.The Official VersionFat Beats
    The Professionals (Madlib & Oh No)The ProfessionalsMadlib Invazion
    James Reese & The ProgressionsWait For Me: The Complete Works (1967-1972)Now-Again Records / Now-Again Reserve
    The Unreleased Sounds Of Top RankAba/NigeriaDig This Way Records
    Prince BusterAfrica - Islam - RevolutionA Rock Steady & Reggae Manifesto 1966-72Earth Sound

    The Bluesman: The Musical Heritage of Black Men and Women in the Americas by Julio Finn

    Black America/Black Power Books
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    Examines the spiritual, social, and anthropological roots of the blues, discussing African animist religion, the slave trade, Voodoo, Hoodoo, and the early country blues and its modern urban electric equivalent, and profiles major blues performer. Deep innit

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    Junior BylesBeat Down Babylon (Expanded)
    • FIRST OFFICIAL RE-ISSUE OF THE ICONIC ALBUM ON CD• MOST TRACKS CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE DIGITALLY• SLEEVE NOTES BY LEE PERRY BIOGRAPHER, DAVID KATZ Released...
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    Knowledge
    MONSTER HEAVYWEIGHT BOOK! From 1994 – 2014 Knowledge magazine was the essential destination for the latest drum & bass news and features and had a massive...
    Join the FutureBleep Techno and the birth of British Bass Music
    The untold story of British dance music’s first sub-bass revolution, tracing the origins, development, impact and influence of bleep techno, and the...
    State of BassJungle: The Story So Far
    ABSOLUTELY ESSENTIAL NEW EDITION OF THIS SEMINAL STUDY ON JUNGLE Originally published in 1997, State of Bass explores the scene’s roots through its...
    The Kingdom of ZydecoBy Michael Tisserand
    IMPORT USA PAPERBACK BOOK 50% OFF RETAIL PRICE. CHEAPER THAN AMAZON! There’s a musical kingdom in the American South that’s not marked on any map....
    Books, New Orleans Music
    Black Power 50Edited by Sylviane A. Diouf and Komozi WoodwardForeword by Khalil Gibran Muhammad
    OVER 50% OFF! WICKED USA large format paperback - nice pix, loads of textBlack Power burst onto the world scene in 1966 with ideas, politics, and fashion...
    Black America/Black Power Books
    Miles' Diary: Life of Miles Davis 1947-1961by Ken Vail
    Good book!
    Jazz, Books
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    John Coltrane - A Sound SignatureJohn W. Selfridge
    Out of print USA papaerback
    Jazz
    Coltrane - The Story Of A SoundBen Ratliff
    Description: No other jazz musician has proved so inspirational and so fascinating as Coltrane. Ben Ratliff, jazz critic for the New York Times, has...
    Jazz, Books
    The Good Auld Days: The Story of Scotland's Entertainers from Music Hall to Televisionby Gordon Irving
     
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    Passion is a Fashion: The Real Story of the Clashby Pat Gilbert
     
    Punk, Books
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    Diana Ross: A Legend in Focus (2000)by Sharon Davis
     
    Funk/Soul, Books
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    The Folk Music Encyclopaediaby Kristin Baggelaar And Donald Milton (1977)
     
    Folk, Books, Rock
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    A Simple Brazilian SongJames Woodall
     
    Brazilian, Books
    Stardust: The David Bowie Storyby Henry & Tony Zanetta
     
    Rock, Books
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      Secondhand out of print first edition hardback with dust jacket in very good condition
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    More Advanced Electronic Music Projectsby R.A. Penfold
     
    Electronic , Books
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    Dusty : An intimate Portrait Of Dusty Springfield (2008)by Sharon Davis
     
    Funk/Soul, Books
    If I Can Dream: Elvis's Own Storyby Larry Geller And Joel Spector (1989)
    A long-time confidante of Elvis Presley reveals intimate details of the legendary performer's dreams and disillusionments, showing his disintegration due...
    Rock, Books
    TransformerThe Lou Reed Story
     
    Rock, Books
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    Frequency SynthesizerTheory and Design
    Rare book on synthesizers. Hardback secondhand w/dustjacket in plastic, ex library w/stamps
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    OctavianEndorphins
    23 year old Angolan / French / British rapper Octavian continues his meteoric rise with the release of a brand new mixtape. Titled Endorphinsit his second...
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    Emeli SandeReal Life
    Fourth album release from pop/soul singer, Emeli Sande!
    Funk/Soul, Indie Rock / Pop
      Sex Pistols: 90 Days At EMIby Brian Southall
      'As new' secondhand book
      Punk, Books
      In The Spiritby Michael P Smith
      Wicked New Orleans pix!
      New Orleans Music, Books, Funk/Soul
      The Blue Moment: Miles Davis's Kind of Blue and the Remaking of Modern Musicby Richard Williams
      s/hand book
      Jazz, Books
      Afro-Brazilian Percussion Guide CandombleBy Kirk Brundage
      Salvador, Bahia, Brazil is an important cradle of Afro-Brazilian culture, and home to musical styles that form the bedrock of much of today's popular sounds....
      Brazilian, Books
      Roy HeathThe Murderer (1979)
      A very good short story about flawed characters and evocative of a time and place in Guyana.  secondhand paperback
      Black Britain
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      Black Music in the United States: an Annotated Bibliographyby Samuel A. Floyd Jr & Marsha J. Reisser
      Includes section on Bibliographies of bibliographies and Bibliographies on biographies (!) and 'records and record collections'
      Black America/Black Power Books
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      The OutsiderAlbert Camus
      It's a classic
      Scooby: The Glory of the Rideby Stuart 'Scooby' Cochrane
      More Ibiza madness
      House Music, Books
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      Warrior & His Oriental Brothers InternationalMy Success (1981)
      Original Nigerian Vinyl! Vinyl/sleeve VG Lots of surface scratches plays well /sleeve F/G- +High-end Audio Desk Systeme Pro Machine Utrasonic cleaned+
      African
        From the heat of the Dayby Roy Heath
         
        Caribbean Books
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        Angelique KidjoCelia
         
        African , Funk/Soul
          Changing JamaicaAdam Kuper
          Original secondhand hardback first edition (laminated dust jacket, ex library w/stamps)
          Books, Caribbean Books
          The Vice LordsWarriors of the Streets
          Rare USA small secondhand book in good condition - cultural anthropology case studies about the legendary street gang. This is 1978 edition with different...
          Black America/Black Power Books
          The BuzzcutsDead or Alive (Extended Mix)
          Previously only released on CD, the extended mix of a cult party classic - a key staple in a DJ Harvey set! Very limited copies in circulation- don't sleep...
          New Disco and re-edits, Disco
            Gerald McCauleyWondering
            "Wondering" that came as a result was brought to life by the singer and industry insider Gerald McCauley, who turned his soul inside out for the performance....
            Funk/Soul
              LeewayLee Morgan Discography
              Excellent discography on man like Lee Morgan, every record session! "Roger Wernboe has done Jazz scholars, fans, and collectors a great favor. Thanks...
              Jazz, Books
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              The Clash FAQAll That s Left to Know About the Clash City Rockers
              OVER 50% OFF!!!Founded by guitarist Mick Jones and fronted by the legendary Joe Strummer, the Clash had the charisma of Elvis, the integrity of the Beatles,...
              Books, Punk
              Gypsy Music in European CultureFrom The Late 18th to the Early 29th CenturiesNortheastern University Press
              USA IMPORT HARDBACK BOOK 65% OFF!!!! THAT's £17 OFF!!!! Translated from the Polish, Anna G. Piotrowska's 'Gypsy Music in European Culture' details the...
              Books, Deep Cult and Roots Music
              Laviscount BrassJamarona / Push Ya Push Day
              VERY HEAVY & RARE CALYPSO TUNE - junp-up heavy percussion and brass instrumental cut 2-sider!
              Calypso
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              It Was Twenty Years Ago Todayby Derek Taylor (1987)
               
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              Contemporary Music: An Introductionby Francis Routh (1968)
              Neat secondhand small hardback book w/dustjacket. Varese, Schoenberg, Copland
              Books
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              Justo Betancourt Y Su Conjunto BorincubaElla Esta En Otra Rumba (1979)
              Heavy two-sider on Fania
              Latin
              • Justo Betancourt Y Su Conjunto Borincuba – Ella Esta En Otra Rumba
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              Soul of a Nation (BOOK)Art in the Age of Black Power
              BACK IN STOCK!!!!In the period of radical change that was 1963-1983, young Black artists at the beginning of their careers in the USA confronted key questions...
              Jazz, Black America/Black Power Books, Art Books
              African Musics in Context. Institutions, Culture, Identityby Thomas Solomon
              African Musics in Context discusses the place of performing arts in Ugandan society, archiving music and music sources, performing archival music, performing...
              African , Books
              Namba RoyNo Black Sparrows
              'A vivid portrait of Jamaica in the 1930s" Excellent social realist novel. Written by Jamaican Namba Roy in the 1950s in Britain. He died in 1961 and...
              Caribbean Books
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              Blood Posse (1994)by Phillip Baker
              Yardie stylee! 'This book follows the life of Danny, a young Jamaican growing up in Brooklyn in the 1970s. At the age of 18, in the middle of a sectarian...
              Books, Reggae
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              Just Above My Headby James Baldwin
              'This is the work of a born storyteller at the height of his powers' Edmund White, Washington Post When Arthur Montana, world-renowned 'Emperor of Soul',...
              Cult Literature Classics
              • Original Book (900g)£20.00
                UK 1st edition hardback w/dustjacket covered in plastic in great condition
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              Music in Africaby Adana Dzemila
              Africa is such a large and diverse continent. Outside Africa, there is often only talk about Africa as one country: For example Tunisia and Tanzania could...
              African , Books